Books

Brett Easton Ellis’s follow-up to LESS THAN ZERO to be released this summer

Apr 23rd, 2010 | By Scott Hopkins
Brett Easton Ellis’s follow-up to LESS THAN ZERO to be released this summer

Author Brett Easton Ellis returns this summer to the glitzy land of cocaine and cocktails with his long awaited sequel to the cult classic, LESS THAN ZERO. Maintaining his theme of borrowing a title from the Elvis Costello song book, IMPERIAL BEDROOM revisits the characters Clay and Blair, twenty-five years later, as they struggle (and
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THE LOST SYMBOL: Another Exercise in Telling a Story Without Characters

Apr 22nd, 2010 | By Kathleen Richter
THE LOST SYMBOL: Another Exercise in Telling a Story Without Characters

Doubleday Books | 2009 | 528 pages | List price: $29.95 | Get it for less at Amazon In Dan Brown’s THE LOST SYMBOL, the main character from his bestselling THE DA VINCI CODE, Robert Langdon, is presented with another series of puzzles to solve, another fanatic with skin issues to outrun, and another female
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Week 15: WHY I’M LIKE THIS: TRUE STORIES by Cynthia Kaplan

Apr 19th, 2010 | By Lara H. Smith
Week 15: WHY I’M LIKE THIS: TRUE STORIES by Cynthia Kaplan

Harper Perennial | 2007 | 240 pages | List price: $13.95 | Get it for less at Amazon It was going to be a bit of a crazy week, and I knew this going into week fifteen. So, I took some time to find what I hoped would be a perfect book to serve as
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Week 14: OFFICIAL BOOK CLUB SELECTION: A MEMOIR ACCORDING TO KATHY GRIFFIN

Apr 12th, 2010 | By Lara H. Smith
Week 14: OFFICIAL BOOK CLUB SELECTION: A MEMOIR ACCORDING TO KATHY GRIFFIN

Ballantine Books | 2009 | 368 pages | List price: $25.00 | Get it for less at Amazon Disclaimer: If you don’t like Kathy Griffin, you aren’t going to like this book. It doesn’t matter how many stars I give it or what I say about it (although, how flattering if that were the case),
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Week 13: THE HELP by Kathryn Stockett

Apr 3rd, 2010 | By Lara H. Smith
Week 13: THE HELP by Kathryn Stockett

Amy Einhorn Books/Putnam | 2009 | 464 pages | List price: $24.95 | Get it for less at Amazon It’s a milestone week! By completing this book, I have officially read more in the first three months of this year than I did all of last year. That’s a bit crazy to me and yet,
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Week 12: THE HEALING OF AMERICA: A GLOBAL QUEST FOR BETTER, CHEAPER, AND FAIRER HEALTH CARE by T. R. Reid

Mar 27th, 2010 | By Lara H. Smith
Week 12: THE HEALING OF AMERICA: A GLOBAL QUEST FOR BETTER, CHEAPER, AND FAIRER HEALTH CARE by T. R. Reid

Penguin Press | 2009 | 288 pages | List price: $25.95 | Get it for less at Amazon It has been a monumental week, no matter what side of the political fence you sit on. This week, the President of the United States signed healthcare reform into law. Now, I am not here to debate
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Week 11: SHE GOT UP OFF THE COUCH: AND OTHER HEROIC ACTS FROM MOORELAND, INDIANA by Haven Kimmel

Mar 21st, 2010 | By Lara H. Smith
Week 11: SHE GOT UP OFF THE COUCH: AND OTHER HEROIC ACTS FROM MOORELAND, INDIANA by Haven Kimmel

Free Press | 2007 | 336 pages | List price: $14.00 | Get it for less at Amazon I read Kimmel’s first memoir, A GIRL NAMED ZIPPY: GROWING UP SMALL IN MOORELAND, INDIANA during one of my annual girls’ trips to Mexico a couple years back. While taking in the sun, tasty margaritas and enjoying
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Week 10: A THREE DOG LIFE by Abigail Thomas

Mar 13th, 2010 | By Lara H. Smith
Week 10: A THREE DOG LIFE by Abigail Thomas

Harvest Books | 2007 | 208 pages | List price: $13.00 | Get it for less at Amazon I scooped up several copies of Abigail Thomas’s memoir, A THREE DOG LIFE, after hearing her read at a local, independent bookseller a couple of years ago. The seal of approval on the cover by Steven King
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Week 9: THE COMPLETE PERSEPOLIS by Marjane Satrapi

Mar 7th, 2010 | By Lara H. Smith
Week 9: THE COMPLETE PERSEPOLIS by Marjane Satrapi

Pantheon | 2007 | 352 pages | List price: $24.95 | Get it for less at Amazon Week nine was finished just in time with Marjane Satrapi’s coming-of-age memoir, THE COMPLETE PERSEPOLIS, a story about growing up in Iran in the early 80s at the height of social change, oppression and war. What’s unique about
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Week 8: THE GIRL WITH THE DRAGON TATTOO by Stieg Larsson

Feb 28th, 2010 | By Lara H. Smith
Week 8: THE GIRL WITH THE DRAGON TATTOO by Stieg Larsson

Knopf | 2008 | 480 pages | List price: $26.95 | Get it for less at Amazon I have had a secret: This week’s book was actually attempted last week and I made an executive decision to put it down and hold until another time, a less busy week, a week when I would have
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